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  1. Hans Christian Andersen the father of modern fairy tales.
  2. Hans work of plays, poerty, and novels have been changed into many different languages to be spoken and read around the world.
  3. His stories influenced moral stories to be patient and kinda to every one.
  4. His work inlfuenced Charles Dickens ("A Christmas Carol in The Prose", "The Chimes" and "The Cricket on The Heart")
  5. His work was influenced by his life, work, and dreams
  6. Most of work was moved by his job in threather
  7. Many people started to read his work after he got many books published in England.
  8. His impact on England was a $960,000 grant for writting.

http://www.answers.com/topic/hans-christian-andersen
  1. His first novel "The Improvisatore" was about his life when his dad died.
  2. It was famous in Germany, England, and Denmark
  3. He wrote 5 more novels about local customs in Denmark
  4. Most of his poems are still a part of living Danish literature, and his most enduring contributions, after the fairy tales, are his travel books.
  5. In 1846 the publication of his collected works in German gave him the opportunity to write an autobiography (published in both German and English in 1847).
  6. This book formed the basis of the Danish version, The Fairy Tale of My Life (1855).
  7. He was influenced to write fairy tales by all the folk talkes he heard as a child
  8. He influenced the novels "The Ugly Duckling," "The Princess and the Pea," and "The Little Mermaid."
  9. He influenced "universal poetry"
  10. Alot of his work was influenced by his loves

http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273
  1. There is an award named after him.
  2. The award is to be givin to a author or a illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature.
  3. The award is the highest award givin to recognize childern authors
  4. THe queen of Denmark made the award after Andersen for his advance work with childern books
  5. The award has been givin out sence 1956

http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/andersen-hans-christian
  1. His father made him go to literary school
  2. His dad was a main influence in his work
  3. When his dad died he was forced to leave his house
  4. when he was forced to leave his house he made alot more novels about his life
  5. This novels reminded him of the folk tales his dad used to tell him
  6. The folk tales became into the fairy tales that he wrote
  7. He was a very regilous person and faith in god influenced some of his work
  8. He has over 150 novels

http://www.answers.com/topic/hans-christian-andersen
  1. He was born on April 2nd, 1805
  2. He recieved a Unversity education.
  3. His dad died when he was very young
  4. He was forced to move away and go alone
  5. He died Aug 4th, 1875

http://www.copenhagenet.dk/CPH-HCA2005.htm
  1. Hans Christian Andersen was born in the 19th century right in the middle of the Napoleonic wars, where Denmark was undergoing changes in the way of living.
  2. His father would play toys, read, and act plays with him while he was a child this influnced alot of his writting
  3. He left his mother to start to become an actor, singer or ballet dancer
  4. The acting influenced many of his plays today
  5. The singing influenced many of the peoms
  6. Also the singing influenced some musicals from him
  7. He stop by the royal threater to go out for a acting postion.
  8. Insteed he got to write poerty for the threater
  9. This was his first work as a poet
  10. He started to write plays to try to get money for school
  11. He feel inlove with thearter and writting plays he decided to make them and send them to the royal threater
  12. His first novel was "The Improvisatore”
  13. It was published in 1835
  14. It held over 30 fairy tales
  15. This was the start of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tale work.
  16. Hans Created a new style of work
  17. The style was called "direct interpretation"
  18. Witch means he can bring what people say in real life and put it in his novels, poems, and plays
  19. His work was very simple
  20. His work was very easy to read as well for childern and adults
  21. "To Travel is to Live" is a novel inspired by his travels witch were funded by the King of Denmark
  22. As he became famous in writting the King paid for all his travels
  23. He traveled to Amsterdam, Austria, Germany, Holland, Italy, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
  24. He had 168 fairy tales
  25. Some of those fairy tales are the best known to the writting world
  26. Alot of his work has been translated into 152 different languges
  27. He wrote so many fairy tales becasue he thought his life was a real fairy tale
  28. He always thought that there would be good at the end

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hcanders.htm
  1. He was granted a grant to go to school after some one from the royal threater read his work
  2. Even tho he was much older then every one the teacher pushed him to do his best... most of his work in school was published into the fairy taleshe has written
  3. After his dad died he wrote The True Story of My Life
  4. He also said "My father gratified me in all my wishes," meaning his father influenced him to do what he wanted to do witch was to write
  5. He produced the play "The Dying Child"
  6. Has he grew old he went around Europe talking abut his books
  7. He also would read the book outloud to poor childern becuase he knew how it felt to be poor
  8. As he travled the world he had a great influence as times got ruff and that was his best friend Edvard Collin
  9. Edvard would travel with Hans inspiring him what to write
  10. Edvard also help act in one of Hans plays
  11. Has Edvard Grew older and died he requested to be buried with Hans becuase every thing they been threw together
  12. One of his early books was about his father job
  13. His father's job was to be a show maker
  14. He had a very high spetched voice witch made the producer refuse him acting
  15. This lead him to try harder in acting and play writting
  16. He has over 10 plays published